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canter of 'Goodby Old Paint.' You mustn't frighten the dogies. They get nervous in crowds. Lope around them gently in the darkness as you sing about punching them along to their new home in Wyoming. They'll sleep the night through and never have a bad dream."
This is the story of the first recording of this now famous cowboy tune. The gypsy woman's song has been sung over the air thousands of times, and we wonder whether she chuckled somewhere in a gypsy tent when Billy Hill's almost notorious "The Last Roundup" was on the air every day and night.
In the meantime we have recorded two tunes which show thatuWhoopee-ti-yi-yo" has wandered as far afield and disguised itself as subtly as any gypsy.
—Adventures of a Ballad Hunter |
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